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REFUGEES
Unequal Mercy: The Increasing Persecution of Refugees
TomDispatch, The Nation, Salon and elsewhere, December, 2022
Why we should think twice before using the term ‘migrant’
Columbia Journalism Review, 20 October 2022
When Will Little Amal Find Her Mother?
The Nation,
28 September, 2022
In Trouble,
but Not Alone
Slate,
25 June 2018
The Lonesome Struggle of LGBTQ Refugees, 
Arrowsmith Journal,
5 October, 2021
The Story of an
Afghan Girl,
The Nation,
16 August, 2021
When Refugees Are Women and Girls
 
Waterstones Blog
May 24, 2022
WAR, WOMEN & POLITICS
Snapshots of Hate and Resistance: Charlottesville, VA, August, 2017,
War, Literature and the Arts Journal, March 2018
"The Plight of Women Soldiers",
 The Nation,
18 May 2009
"Women at War Face Sexual Violence",
BBC News,
17 April 2009
"For Women Warriors, Deep Wounds, Little Care",
 
 The New York Times Op-Ed, 16 May 2008
 
"The Private War of Women Soldiers",
Salon.com, 2007  *Winner of James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism, 2007
How to make #MeToo stick this time, 
 
CNN,
21 November 2017
"The Military Has a Man Problem"
 
Politico,
August 2015
"Military Women's Long March to Equality,"
 
Philadelphia Inquirer Op-Ed, 26 January 2013
"Covering Rape Responsibly",
 
Women's Media Center,
1 February 2013
 
"War: A Love Story", 
 
On the Issues Magazine,
February 2011
"Women at War," a series of blogs for PBS, 
 
POV for PBS,
17 February 2010
"When Johnny Comes Marching In",
 The New York Times,
10 April 2009
"How to Lie With Statistics",
 
 Huffington Post,
20 March 2009
"The Scandal of Military Rape", 
Ms. Magazine, 2008 *Winner of EMMA, Exception Merit in Media Award, from the National Women's Political Caucus
Radio essay on military sexual abuse, 
Academic Minute broadcast, WAMC
 
The Best Contemporary Iraqi Writing about War,
 
Literary Hub,
12 October 2017
"Reporting on Afghanistan in the Shadow of the 'I'"
 
Los Angeles Review of Books, 1 February 2014 
"The hidden side of women’s military service: sexual assault",
Columbia Journalism Review, January 2013
"Why I Wrote a War Novel", 
 
The Cafe at On the Issues Magazine, August 2011
"Violent Veterans: The Big Picture",
 Huffington Post,
14 January 2009
"Why Soldiers Rape",
In These Times,
13 August 2008
 
WRITING AND LITERATURE
"Why Imagination Matters", 
 
Powell's Book Blog,
10 October 2017
 
"Why Argument Belongs in Fiction",
The Brooklyn Quarterly,
Fall 2013
"Tone Deaf: Learning to Listen to the Music in Prose", 
Poets & Writers Magazine,
Nov/Dec 2001
"The Mnemonic Library: A Reading Experiment",
Blog posted on The Quivering Pen, David Abram's literary site, 8 May 2014
"The Frightened Muse",
Originally posted on Featurewell.com in 2001 and revised in 2006
"Research in Fiction -- Necessary but Dangerous",
The Center for Fiction/Writers on Writing 
 
"Fiction vs. Nonfiction: Wherein Lies the Truth",
 Poets & Writers Magazine, November / December 2001
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